First shipment of Pfizer vaccines expected to arrive in the coming days

The first shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines is expected to arrive in Israel in the coming days, the Health Ministry has confirmed, although the exact day of delivery is still unclear. KAN Radio reported that the vaccines would arrive in Israel on Thursday.

The first shipment is expected to include 110,000 doses.

Israel has purchased eight million doses of the Pfizer vaccine – enough to vaccinate four million people.

Last week, Health Ministry director-general Chezy Levy said during a video meeting with the country’s hospital administrators that some four million doses could arrive before the end of the month. He said that although they could come even before they are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, no one will be inoculated before approval.

The FDA advisory panel is set to review the Pfizer vaccine on December 10.

“I was happy to hear that the first doses of vaccine are expected to arrive in #Israel in the next few days,” President Reuven Rivlin tweeted on Monday night upon hearing the news. “I’m ready, of course.”